It is -9 degrees Celcius, or 15.8 Fahrenburgers, for Americans. We consider this very cold indeed - things are all over ice and frozen slush since the snow on Sunday, and we are pretty fed up of it now.
It is -9 degrees Celcius, or 15.8 Fahrenburgers, for Americans. We consider this very cold indeed - things are all over ice and frozen slush since the snow on Sunday, and we are pretty fed up of it now.
It is -9 degrees Celcius, or 15.8 Fahrenburgers, for Americans. We consider this very cold indeed - things are all over ice and frozen slush since the snow on Sunday, and we are pretty fed up of it now.
We of Arizona also consider that to be cold. Ongoing drought at the moment though.
So, Shiro really pointed out just how twisted California is. There's an egg shortage. The price has gone from $6.99/dozen to $9.99/dozen for the uber-fancy, "We hand-raise our chickens and knit them little sweaters in the winter," eggs. I said, "So?"
He pointed out, in what other world is a 50%+ price increase something where someone would react with a, "So?"
And it's absolutely true. Grocery bills are less than 8% of our overall outlay. That's how expensive everything else is. So a minor uptick in one grocery item is utterly unnoticeable to us; the overall bill may be $5 or $10 more, but whatever.
And for normal people in normal parts of the country, that's an appalling price spike.
So I'm doing my best to try to stay away from political discussions, but sometimes the abject stupidity overwhelms me.
California wildfires:
So, apparently the wildfires are Gavin Newsom's fault because he protected some "useless fish". I'm openly stunned at the lack of logic here: Failing to drain the water out of rivers and wetlands in the lowlands let to uncontrollable fires in the highlands. Erm, because...
...and here I can't even come up with a joke. "Water is flammable?" The protected areas aren't anywhere near the fires. "The extra water let the brush grow out of control?" The protected areas aren't anywhere near the fires...
It's just fundamentally... dumb. Trump wants to make Newsom look bad so he says the fires are Newsom's fault and then, because there's no way to actually pin it on Newsom, he randomly cites some policy of Newsom's that he doesn't like.
Honestly, the bible-thumpers who say the fires are a result of our sinful ways make more logical sense than Trump does. And yet a whole slew of people, including Fox News, have picked up on it.